Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Template:Lang-ru, Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza; short: КПСС, KPSS) was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world. It lost its dominance in the wake of the failure of the 1991 August putsch.
See also
- Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (alliance UCP-CPSU)
- Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union
- Komsomol (VLKSM)
- Communist Party
- Decommunization of Russia
- Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 – 1991
- Index of Soviet Union-related articles
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